People and Teams
People and Teams
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Dealing with a Digital Addiction Do you feel anxious when you have to be offline for a while? Do you sleep with your phone by your side? You might have a digital addiction. It's easy to laugh off, but such an addiction affects relationships, stress levels, and even creativity. Read on for warning signs and how you can handle them. |
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Why Scrum Team Members Need to Feel Safe to Admit Their FailuresSteve Vaughn writes on why team members need to feel comfortable when speaking openly—about failures as well as successes—during a standup meeting. People will only speak when they feel safe, and once agile team members feel safe to fail, they can begin to improve. | 
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Development and Marketing—Can't We All Just Get Along? When building software for sale, it may seem that software development managers and product marketing managers should get along great. One team builds the software; the other team finds people to buy it. Eric Bloom looks at the primary reason why these two teams sometimes don't get along. |
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How to Enrage, not Engage, Your Twitter FollowersMaybe one day we'll all know how to use Twitter without infuriating our followers. But when Twitter executives themselves can't seem to figure it out, perhaps we're all doomed to keep making the same mistakes. PR companies across the U.S. were busy putting out social media fires all week long. | 
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To Become a Leader, Start Acting Like a Leader TodayIf you want to become a leader, you should start to act like a leader—no matter what level you’re at right now. To do that, strive to excel in your current role and seek out opportunities to contribute. Read on for more tips on becoming a leader—whether at the team level or as head of the company. |
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When Does Turnaround Management Succeed?Turnaround management has a very typical lifecycle of its own, and it is not a strict theory than can be adopted to succeed. Rajini Padmanaban looks at the various facets of turnaround management and highlights some recent high-profile instances of companies implementing turnaround management. | 
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How the Complexity Theory Fits In with Management and Software Venkatesh Krishnamurthy explains that the complexity theory, based on the premise of non-linearity, involves the study of complex systems. Even though the complexity theory is not a new concept, people are still grappling to imbibe this into management and software development. |
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How to Engage and Manage Introverts in Software DevelopmentSince approximately one-third of all people are introverts, the managers and individuals working with introverted employees need to understand and treat this personality type with compassion. Anuj Magazine offers some tips on how you as a manager or colleague can encourage introverted people. | 
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